Biography & Memoir
The Big Blowdown
George Pelecanos
?Pelecanos has enormous strengths as a crime writer. He can?t write a dull sentence, his dialogue has great rhythm, his action scenes are ferociously…
The Crust On Its Uppers
Derek Raymond
?Tremendous black comedy of Chelsea gangland, written and set in the early Sixties, on the cusp of swinging London? Face ?Peopled by a fast-talking sh…
The Sweet Forever
George Pelecanos
The real deal; a dirty, human slice of raw American life… Pelecanos has joined James Lee Burke and Lawrence Block at the high table of contemporary…
The Slide Area
Gavin Lambert
Most of all there is enormous skill: the author has the playwright's flair for taut, meaningful dialogue; the novelist's feeling for mood, t…
Inside Daisy Clover
Gavin Lambert
Decades before it was fashionable, Gavin Lambert expertly wove characters of every sexual stripe into his lustrous tapestries of Southern California l…
Lust
Elfriede Jelinek
Sport, capitalism, male penetrative sexuality, bourgeois consumerism, the family – are pilloried in between the ceaseless rapes, buggeries and other a…
Wonderful, Wonderful Times
Elfriede Jelinek
A dozen years after the collapse of the Third Reich, four adolescents commit a gratuitously violent assault and robbery in a Viennese park. So begins…
Count Julian
Juan Goytisolo
This wicked, passionate and extremely funny book can be read as Goytisolo's farewell to the priests, generals and sanctimonious moralizers who ru…
Tea in the Harem
Mehdi Charef
Charef describes everyday hurts and bruises as if they were distinctive characteristics of the human condition. This unadorned voice goes straight to…
Who Was That Man?
Neil Bartlett
A passionate attempt to fix what is essential in Oscar Wilde, fraud and martyr